ripplingly

English

Etymology

rippling +‎ -ly

Adverb

ripplingly (comparative more ripplingly, superlative most ripplingly)

With a rippling motion.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
  Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows […]

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